Replies

California: A straight-A transcript does not guarantee a student is ready for college-level work. About 20 percent of the freshmen who enter Cal State East Bay with a 4.0 GPA need at least some remediation in math, English or both, according to Greg Smith, associate vice president of enrollment for the university. The rate is about 60 percent when you include all first-time freshmen in the California State University system.

CHEYENNE — Less than a quarter of Wyoming high-school students who took the ACT college entrance exam tested well enough to show they are ready for college with 79 percent possibly needing remedial college classes.

NYC high school graduates not ready for success in college

Boston: Massachusetts may have one of the highest rates of students going to college, but the first statewide "school-to-college" report shows that 37 percent of public high school graduates who go for public higher education may not be ready.The joint report released by the Massachusetts Department of Education and Board of Higher Education showed that students lagging behind needed remedial courses in college.

Michael Moore spoke on the issue of education. Moore noted a poll done by National Geographic of the knowledge of young people in America. According to the poll, 80 percent of 18-25 year olds could not find Iraq on a map, 16 percent could not find Great Britain on a map and 11 percent could not find the United Sates on a map.

Moore continued: "We have trained our children to be test takers but we have not educated them," he said. "We are an idiot nation." "Walk into any pre-school and look at (the children), they are active and ready to learn," he said. "Look at them at 17 years old in high school, their minds are numb and deadened."

Can't dispute Moore on this and didn't think I would come down to quoting Moore.